My First Survivor Story: Moshe When the war began, Moshe ran to the woods and hid with partisans for several years. He pretended he wasn't a Jew, because the partisans hated Jews. The Jews living there were killed. When the war ended, Moshe went back home. He found that his family was mostly dead. So he fled to Israel, but he had to start his life over.
My Second Survivor Story: Bracha When Bracha was six, Romanian authorities came to her house and took her and her family to a Russian passageway station. They were going to get sent to an extermination camp, but a Russian officer sent them to a Russian family to live. While living with the family, Bracha was always hungry, and never got enough to eat. She almost did not make it. Finally when Bracha was 11, the Germans were defeated and her family went back home. They found nothing there, and they had to start their lives from the beginning.
This is a picture of the gas chambers. The Nazi’s would force people in there to get gassed. Sometimes, they would lie and say that the Jews were going to take a shower. Then when they got into the building, they would be gassed. Oftentimes adults would step on and crush the children in the chambers to get to the air vents on the ceiling.
This is a Holocaust memorial that students in Whitwell, Tennessee built. They collected paper clips for each person that perished in the Holocaust. There are 11,000,000 paper clips stored inside the rail car. In all, the students collected 26 million paper clips.
Pictures above are Adolf Hitler(left) and Joseph Stalin(right). They both killed a mass number of people. Stalin killed people because he had a vision of Russia, and he killed people to try and succeed. Hitler killed people he thought they were inferior to him.
This is a picture of a book burning. The Nazi’s took all the Jews books, documents, or any writing material. Most of these books were religious books, or books that were deemed “un-german”, as the scene in the picture takes place in Germany. The Nazi’s would light all the books on fire, and make the Jews solute Hitler, by saying “Heil Hitler!” That is what is happening in this picture.
In this picture is a concentration camp. In these camps, the people were forced into hard labor. If you disobeyed a Nazi, you would get killed. The people in these camps were starved. Lots were forced to go into gas chambers, or they got shot. One sad thing that happened in these camps were that people would dig their own graves, almost without knowing. The Nazi’s would force them to dig huge holes, then once people died, they would throw the bodies in the holes. These camps were unbelievably cruel.
10 Facts About The Holocaust
1. Over 1 million were killed at the Auschwitz complex alone.
2. The first concentration camp was Dachau.
3. The Nazi’s especially targeted children, because they could live longer, and create more Jews.
4. The word holocaust has a Greek origin, and means “a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.”
5. The amount of Jews killed during the Holocaust was two-thirds of the Jews living at the time.
6. The first country that Hitler invaded was Czechoslovakia.
7. Over 18,000 people died due to Nazi medical experiments.
8. The most fatal killing happened in Babi Yar. Over 100,000 were killed in only a few days.
9. Some Jews were forced to be sonderkommandos, people who disposed of the corpses.
10. In Germany, over 40,000 facilities were used to hold, work, and kill Jews.
The Holocaust and Me: In this unit in reading, I learned a lot about the Holocaust. I learned about the survivors of the Holocaust, and all the hardships that they endures. Hearing about these stories make me sad, because many of them have lost everything, even their family. I feel bad for them. I also learned about the concentration camps, and how the victims were treated. It made me mad at the Nazi's for doing those cruel things to innocent people. All in all, I liked learning about the Holocaust.
Paper Clips: The paper clip is a symbol to represent a person who perished in the Holocaust. It stands for that because during the Holocaust, people from Norway wore paper clips to show resistance against the Nazi's. In the movie, I learned that the whole project started because the kids in Whitwell Middle School were learning about the Holocaust. The kids were horrified by all the deaths, and they had never seen six million. So they started collecting paper clips. I also learned that every two days, the kids would fill up a three inch binder full of mail. Once, a man sent in 100,000 paper clips all by himself! They ended up collecting over 30 million paper clips.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo; In the movie Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo, I learned that Jan Zabinski helped hide 300 Jews during the Holocaust. During that time, 500,000 people had to call a ghetto home. Also, anyone over the age of six months was considered an adult to the Nazi's. The ghettos were as long as 10 blocks long. Jan Zabinski hid the Jews in his empty zoo. When the Nazi's came asking if he'd seen any Jews, it was easy to lie. The Nazi's passed right through. The zoo was empty because during the bombings, the animals were all killed or set loose.
All About Me: Hi. My name is Sofia and I like to read. I also love dogs, and I like to bake. I am 11 years old. Thanks for viewing!
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My First Survivor Story: Moshe
When the war began, Moshe ran to the woods and hid with partisans for several years. He pretended he wasn't a Jew, because the partisans hated Jews. The Jews living there were killed. When the war ended, Moshe went back home. He found that his family was mostly dead. So he fled to Israel, but he had to start his life over.
My Second Survivor Story: Bracha
When Bracha was six, Romanian authorities came to her house and took her and her family to a Russian passageway station. They were going to get sent to an extermination camp, but a Russian officer sent them to a Russian family to live. While living with the family, Bracha was always hungry, and never got enough to eat. She almost did not make it. Finally when Bracha was 11, the Germans were defeated and her family went back home. They found nothing there, and they had to start their lives from the beginning.
This is a picture of the gas chambers. The Nazi’s would force people in there to get gassed. Sometimes, they would lie and say that the Jews were going to take a shower. Then when they got into the building, they would be gassed. Oftentimes adults would step on and crush the children in the chambers to get to the air vents on the ceiling.
This is a Holocaust memorial that students in Whitwell, Tennessee built. They collected paper clips for each person that perished in the Holocaust. There are 11,000,000 paper clips stored inside the rail car. In all, the students collected 26 million paper clips.
Pictures above are Adolf Hitler(left) and Joseph Stalin(right). They both killed a mass number of people. Stalin killed people because he had a vision of Russia, and he killed people to try and succeed. Hitler killed people he thought they were inferior to him.
This is a picture of a book burning. The Nazi’s took all the Jews books, documents, or any writing material. Most of these books were religious books, or books that were deemed “un-german”, as the scene in the picture takes place in Germany. The Nazi’s would light all the books on fire, and make the Jews solute Hitler, by saying “Heil Hitler!” That is what is happening in this picture.
In this picture is a concentration camp. In these camps, the people were forced into hard labor. If you disobeyed a Nazi, you would get killed. The people in these camps were starved. Lots were forced to go into gas chambers, or they got shot. One sad thing that happened in these camps were that people would dig their own graves, almost without knowing. The Nazi’s would force them to dig huge holes, then once people died, they would throw the bodies in the holes. These camps were unbelievably cruel.
10 Facts About The Holocaust
1. Over 1 million were killed at the Auschwitz complex alone.
2. The first concentration camp was Dachau.
3. The Nazi’s especially targeted children, because they could live longer, and create more Jews.
4. The word holocaust has a Greek origin, and means “a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.”
5. The amount of Jews killed during the Holocaust was two-thirds of the Jews living at the time.
6. The first country that Hitler invaded was Czechoslovakia.
7. Over 18,000 people died due to Nazi medical experiments.
8. The most fatal killing happened in Babi Yar. Over 100,000 were killed in only a few days.
9. Some Jews were forced to be sonderkommandos, people who disposed of the corpses.
10. In Germany, over 40,000 facilities were used to hold, work, and kill Jews.
Sources:
__http://facts.randomhistory.com/holocaust-facts.html__
90 important facts about the Holocaust that you probably didn't know.
http://besttop10tip.com/top-10-interesting-facts-holocaust/
10 interesting facts with lots of suporting information.
__http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holocaust__
Online dictionary with everything from definitions to translators.
__https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust__
11 facts filled with important dates, people and places.
http://www.myinterestingfacts.com/holocaust-facts/
10 facts that focus on the death and life destruction of Jews during the Holocaust.
http://www.10-facts-about.com/Holocaust/id/1364
10 facts that cover most topics of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust and Me:
In this unit in reading, I learned a lot about the Holocaust. I learned about the survivors of the Holocaust, and all the hardships that they endures. Hearing about these stories make me sad, because many of them have lost everything, even their family. I feel bad for them. I also learned about the concentration camps, and how the victims were treated. It made me mad at the Nazi's for doing those cruel things to innocent people. All in all, I liked learning about the Holocaust.
Paper Clips:
The paper clip is a symbol to represent a person who perished in the Holocaust. It stands for that because during the Holocaust, people from Norway wore paper clips to show resistance against the Nazi's. In the movie, I learned that the whole project started because the kids in Whitwell Middle School were learning about the Holocaust. The kids were horrified by all the deaths, and they had never seen six million. So they started collecting paper clips. I also learned that every two days, the kids would fill up a three inch binder full of mail. Once, a man sent in 100,000 paper clips all by himself! They ended up collecting over 30 million paper clips.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo;
In the movie Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo, I learned that Jan Zabinski helped hide 300 Jews during the Holocaust. During that time, 500,000 people had to call a ghetto home. Also, anyone over the age of six months was considered an adult to the Nazi's. The ghettos were as long as 10 blocks long. Jan Zabinski hid the Jews in his empty zoo. When the Nazi's came asking if he'd seen any Jews, it was easy to lie. The Nazi's passed right through. The zoo was empty because during the bombings, the animals were all killed or set loose.
All About Me:
Hi. My name is Sofia and I like to read. I also love dogs, and I like to bake. I am 11 years old. Thanks for viewing!